Horace Quotes

Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

Whoever owns the means of credit controls the industrial life of the nation.

So, we have in America today, my friends, a condition by which about 10 men dominate the means of activity in at least 85 percent of the activities that you own. They either own directly everything or they have got some kind of mortgage on it, with a very small percentage to be excepted. They own the banks, they own the steel mills, they own the railroads, they own the bonds, they own the mortgages, they own the stores, and they have chained the country from one end to the other

The United States must take into its own hands the control of the gold value of the dollar.

All the power of the government will be directed towards the Rockefeller Trust.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

Economics runs the world.

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.